Late but Good!

Hey everyone!!

Hahahahah.... I just saw that i have been absolutely horrible about keeping up with everyone and I am so sorry. I have no excuse but am glad to say I AM BACK!!!

I am so glad to say that. So what have I been doing you maybe asking, let me tell you. I arrived back to Kona June 4th, after being the great nation of Japan, and was in Kona for about three weeks. Then bought a ticket back home to go and visit the amazing fam. I was with them for a little over a month. It was absolutely lovely and a total blessing to me to be able to just relax and spend time with them it had been awhile. We were able to spend our traditional July 4th in Seward, AK which was wonderful. To my enjoyment it was the second coldest July on record in Alaska so while everyone was enjoy the heatwave of the lower 48, I was enjoy the blaming 55 degrees in Alaska. I laughed so hard because I was so not use to being that cold and was wearing wool socks all the time. (Thanks mom for sharing my suntanned feet really needed them.) It was great just being able to spend that month with them and while I was home I got to see so many people that I didn't expect and that was such a treat I felt a true gift from God. I was also able to spend sometime just being back at my home church Northgate and with the youth there which is such a treat as always. I was able to speak to them one Wednesday night and it is such a blessing to see the next generation being raised up.

Really, I will just say this it was so special to spend that month with Candice, Caleb and Adrianna and my parents. I love them so much and when you aren't always around them you realize what a blessing it really is to have family that always will love you no matter where you are. I am beyond blessed by God that I have them and that they support and encourage all that I am doing. God has really meant families to be that way I always feel. He never meant them to rise against one another but to love. I had a revelatioin about family last summer and it was that there is no greater bond then family but it was the number one thing the enemy wanted to destroy because they really do know how to love past all. Think about it why do you think there is so much against families and why they don't stay close maybe its because God created it to be the safest place and the number one support group but the enemy only wants to see it destroyed, broken, and hate one another. Just some thoughts.

After going to Alaska I headed out with my great big sis Candice to Kansas City, MO. Where we would go to the two week school called the School of the Circuit Riders. We were also so blessed to be able to stay with some amazing friend Faith and Brayn Beaven. Just shout out to you guys one of the best stays of my life!! Candice and I had a blast with you and will never forget it! hahaha... :)  We were put in intensive training of being set free and then going out to seek the lost and let them know of the best news they could ever know. Jesus Christ loves them and he wants them to turn and know him. Its the simple gospel. So we got trained up and then would be sent out to do the stuff. We saw 248 salvation's and 155 healings in KC, MO in only two weeks. Candice and I got our lives transformed and just feel more in love with Jesus and got toally excited about what was going to be happening next on the earth. There is a great stirring and this time I feel like it is very different then before. I feel like this generation is looking for one movement but a continual one of Jesus Christ receieving the rewards of his suffering. That we would stand in an urgency that people must know who this great man Jesus Christ is and why he wants to  know everyone. He isn't a selfish God who only cares about himself he is the God who loves everyone and wants them to be set free from the sin of this world. There is another wave coming and it looks very different from before. It may at times look like something you have seen but lets not box it in so we can keep it because we go from Glory to Glory and we just let God do what he wants to do on the earth.

I think it would be good to say my life got radically changed again and I am so excited for everything that is happening in life. God is coming and he is going receive all that his heart desires. We will go to the hardest and darkest Nations to make Jesus Christ name known. We will go to Coorprate America, to the streets, to the homes of many and to the body of Christ. We don't see as anyone out of reach or unneed ALL MUST KNOW HIM!! We are the generation crying out for something more. We are going to see Jesus Christ recieve his reward and if not in our day at least we lived with the urgency that we helped usher in the return of Jesus Christ. See it doesn't matter what we get in return we just love Jesus and we want to love him and love his people. Its all for him.

I end with this: Psalms 24:6 "Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the fave of the God of Jacob."

Back Again

EVERYONE HELLO!!!!

 My goodness where do I even start. First off I would love to thank everyone who supported me in this time! Either in prayer or finacially or both it all meant the world to me and I could feel a real grace and blessing to do it all and I know it was because of the support.  My prayer is that the Lord richly blesses you just as you have richly blessed me. Onething to know before I begin to share about my time is Jesus is receiving the rewards in the Nations. There is the movement awakening in peoples hearts and know that these stories I am sharing with are testimonies of what God did and are yours to share as well.


Well, On March 28th I board on a plane in Kona, Hawaii bound for Tokyo, Japan. With 8 other radical lovers of Jesus we did not exactly what to expect or what we would see in this Nation. We were going with this one heart that we would spread the Joy of God through out the Nation of Japan. So with John 15:11-13 (These things I have spoke to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy maybe full. "This commandments that you love on another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one that this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.") as our anchor we would set out with just that. Our joy would be made full in Jesus, that we would love Jesus and one another fully and that we would lay down our lives for one another daily to see the kingdom of God brought to Japan.

Our journey began with heading directly up to the Tohoku prefecture of Japan. This is the area where the Tsunami hit last March. So not knowing what we would see only knowing where we were going and what we  would do our team went with the happiest hearts to go and help the Japanese. We would join the organization Samaritan's Purse who had been there from the beginning to help rebuild homes. Our job was to mud out the houses which, was pretty much demoing the house. We did everything from demolishing walls, pulling up floors, to literally shoveling out dirt. It was amazing! My team always went in with the a joy that only could be given by God. However you can't go through this area with out being totally blown away by the amounts of devastation that is still so noticeable. As we drove to our first house all you see are cars stacked up along the side of the road and no one has come to move them. We were told that in Japan the owner of the car has to come and claim it to be moved. This means the majority of those cars have not been claimed because they belonged to someone who died in the tsunami.  As you drive along  you begin to see some homes that were completely demolished and others that still are standing right next to it or a house standing alone in an area in which you can tell that there once were homes that stood next to it. All through out this time you are just silenced by this very surreal moment. As you meet people your heart is broken even more by how much they have actually suffered and everyone has a different lose, a different story, and a different pain from that day. All you want is to hold them and let them cry and share with them the hope you carry that Jesus has given you.

One of the greatest stories that my team came away with from being up in Tohoku is about this wonderful girl we met up there, her name is Saki. She is a beautiful, 19 year old Japanese girl whose home we actually worked on. This was an unusual meeting because most of the time the families are never home when a team comes to work on a home and to meet a 19 year old their is even a bigger shock because that age they are generally working or in college. My team however got all of that and we were so excited because we knew God was up to something if this never happens. We were told this by our crew leader. She spoke a little English but what we quickly realized is that she just loved being with us and as we just started to love on her she would try to speak with us a little bit more. Our team just made it a real point to talk with her and to love on her. So we had planned to go out to sushi where Saki worked one day and that day she came home early from school because she had the flu with a fever. In tears she looked at us and said she was unable to go out at all that night or week and at that moment we reached our hands out and prayed in the Name of JESUS BE HEALED! Later that night she wrote Shelley on my team and told her her fever had broke that afternoon and that she was better! COME ON JESUS!!! We loved her so much and even though communication was hard at times it didn't seem to stop her from receiving the love of Jesus or knowing that there was something different about us. She isn't saved yet because she believes it is her responsibility to continually pray for her grandmother who was lost in the tsunami to be in a better place. However, I do know that Saki encountered Jesus along with her mother and our team still continues to pray for them and contend for their salvation. This was just our first three weeks and there were many other things that did happen.

When we left the Tohuku area we headed down to Tokyo. Where we weren't entirely sure what to do except to love on the people of Japan, and help out the YWAM base there. Because of the hearts of many on our team we did see 8 salvation's in the course of our 6 weeks in Tokyo. Some may that's not very many but its not about the number or the lack of trying or anything really. Let's be honest we all know that Salvation is freedom of choice and you can choose him or not. Its all about encountering the love of Jesus and knowing that He loves you and died for you. We never had a translator either in these times which goes to show that the Gospel is quite simple and that if you carry the love of Jesus in your heart he does all the rest. We look at these eight people as the beginning fruit of the great harvest Japan will see. We just saw just a little bit of what is to come. Praise JESUS you are worthy of it all.

One of my favorite stories of the Salvation's comes from a wonderful girl on my team name Miriam. She was out on the streets and as she is roaming the streets of Tokyo she just began to get a desire to see someone get saved. So she asked the Lord for a picture of what to do next and at the moment she saw a girl with pigtails and bangs. Now in Japan that is a common description of a young girl. She had been looking for this girl and didn't see one of them. Until they were heading home and there she was all of a sudden the pigtails girl. A little reluctant at first, Miriam finally started walking after this girl (who was walking very fast) to talk with her. As she caught up to her they began to talk a little bit Miriam just laid out the simplicity of the Gospel and at the end asked this girl if she wanted to know Jesus and the girl said yes! Now I just have to add this side note that this girl she was talking to didn't know very much English and Miriam didn't know any Japanese. So Miriam leads her in the prayer and the girl was like He is now inside of me and Miriam was like YES! The girl she said smiled and was so happy and Miriam told her to get a Bible and the girl was like okay. It was so genuine and this is just one of the eight stories we have.

God did so much in that Nation and I have to say for myself however the greatest reward was walking with all the people on my team. They all taught me something unique and without them my life would not be where it is now. They had so much grace for me as a leader and loved me unconditionally. It was worth every moment spending time with them and pouring into them. Watching them being transformed by the love of Jesus was such an honor. I remember telling God one day that if they were the only reason I came to Japan was to see them just fall more in love with him it was worth it. It had nothing with what I did it had to do all with how much God loved them in every situation and ever place in life. They each came away with their own stories. They each came away with their own experiences. They came away with a true encounter of who God is.

I end with this that God is living and moving today. He is real! SO REAL! If you need anything cry out to him and he will answer. If you want to know Him invite him in. If you want hope again God gives hope and if you simply want to know what you are living your life for just ask God because he does speak today. We can't complicate this because God made it simple. The gospel was never meant to be hard to understand it was meant to be understood by all people. God is real and I know this because I saw Him be who he said he was Faith and True. He provided for me time and time again and was always faithful to answer the cries of my heart whether big or small He knew and answered. No don't treat him like Santa or a magic eight ball because he is neither of those he is a God who loves and cares for us children he is always just waiting for us to let go of all the lies and pains we carry and receive Him, pure love and acceptance.

HE LOVES YOU!

So this is just a little bit of all I saw and did. It was a blessing beyond words. I loved every moment that God had me in. Even in the hard ones I look back and only see his Faithfulness. If you want to know more let me know. I would love to tell you. You can email me at katelandhilty@gmail.com. If you want to be on my mailing list let me know. I love to letting people know what is going on. I love you all.

Kateland :)

Journeys

Hey All,

We are half way done with our DTS! I can't believe it. I just have no words to describe what God is doing except to say that he is a good father and he loves his children so much. Its hard to explain all that is happening here. So let me paint a little picture for you to get what I am trying to say. Have you ever got to walk with people closely and love them for where they are at and get to see them radically changed by the love of God and in the midst of it you are be transformed as well. That is what it is. People are being changed by Jesus. The reality that he is here and is never going to stop pursuing us is true. He wants us. He wants us to know that he loves us. He never wants us to walk in pain, self-pity, insecurities or anything secondary to what he created us for. I have realized so much more that there is a battle for our hearts and our minds daily. That the enemy absolutely hates it when people truly love God and become who God created them to be. It is a beautiful thing to see happening.

This DTS has been such a journey to say the least. Its really funny when you come to a place where you think you know everything and then God so kindly reminds you that you only know a snippet of who He is. It makes much more exciting when there is something new to be learned every day. I will be honest when you think you know everything you think you have all the answers and I don't want to have the answers if God has them all already. (Let's be honest he handles things a lot better then I do when I have the answers. Hahhaha...) That is why journeys are so much fun to be on because you never know and what they hold for you. I am learning something about myself and it is that I love adventures. Hahaha... I never thought I was that type until I started all that I am doing and realize I find life so dull with out them. That change is lots of fun for the most part and to embrace it because it comes whether or not I like it. Fear only holds you back from the things that you have only ever wanted to do so if you are afraid just know its probably holding you back.

I feel like many people are curious of what I am doing next and all I got to say is guys I have only been here over a 5 months and I don't know. However, I am on a continual journey with God and so it will not always look as thought out as it should in the worlds eyes but in his its beautiful. I know that lots of my life will be lived loving him and fallowing what he has for me. That is all I know. Its the greatest journey I know to be on. And some times it will look unconventional, scary and probably ridiculous but there is something in my bones that can't be contained and it I have to go and do what he wants to go and do. So if you are wondering what the journey in your life is ask Him. He will tell you and if its a bit outrageous then that is a good thing. We have to stop letting the things that scare us hold us back. I have to tell myself this all the time because once I step out to do it, love it!! So I just feel to encourage you ask the Lord what you should do. It could be lots of fun.

If you want to know more about what I doing here you can always email me. katelandhilty@gmail.com

I love everyone so much. Hope you are all doing well. Love you!!

Kateland :)

Here we GO!

 Well, it is official everyone! We have started, I repeat, we have started our January quarter Fire and Fragrance DTS! I can't believe it and it has already been two weeks of teaching. What a whirl wind adventure and time. I don't even know how to explain it exactly but it has been absolutely exhausting and totally rewarding all at the same time. We have an amazing group of young adults full of hunger and love to know God more and let me tell you it is contagious. I find myself with them wanting more of God, more of what he has for me and there is nothing holding me back. This quarter has officially the biggest quarter that the Kona YWAM Campus has ever seen and beings we are the biggest campus in the world its a sure sign God is getting ready to do something big!

I am so excited to be leading a team to Japan with my co-leader Zak. Its going to be crazy and all we keep hearing is God has something in Japan and the harvest is ready. So we are going with open hearts and expecting to see Jesus be made known in this glorious nation. We will be taking a group of seven to Japan and I love it because it a great size and they are all so amazing!! SO AMAZING!! My heart is so happy with who God choose to be on our team. We couldn't ask for a better group that is for sure. I know many of you are thinking have you heard about Japan and what about the nuclear plant there and probably are wondering lots of things but all I got to say is man Jesus is there and he is want to do something big for that Nation and we just get that pleasure to join in with it.

I am not sure how to explain it but I have never felt so alive before in my life. Being apart of DTS there is just something it that I love. I think its the fact you get to live for what Jesus called us to do and that was to go out and preach the gospel everywhere. I never thought I would be a missionary but I should of saw it coming because when I was 15 years old there was a guy who looked at me and said do you have a heart for missions because I see you there. Hahaha... I remember hearing that word and being like NO WAY and now look where I am living a room with eight other girls and getting ready to lead a team to Japan so that Jesus can be made known to people. WOW!! and in the word's of McDonald's I am lovin' it! I will put it this way there is just something that makes you come alive when you are giving your life for a greater cause other then yourself.

This one is a little short but I just wanted to update you all and say Hey, I love you and I am doing good!!

Much love Kateland :)

Picture taken at the Volcano!!hahaha...